| Date | Data Changes | Files Affected |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-28 | initial official data release | all |
| 2024-05-13 | added new measures of trial convictions to dataset; fixed an error which included dates of accused deaths in calculation of trial end dates; updated Argentine prosecutions data; added SGBV coding for Argentine prosecutions | tjet_cy.csv; tjet_trials.csv; tjet_accused.csv |
| 2024-06-10 | recoded BiH War Crimes Chamber trials data from “hybrid” to “domestic”; added Ethiopian truth commission | tjet_cy.csv; tjet_trials.csv; tjet_tcs.csv |
| 2024-07-07 | added detailed charges coding for Argentine crimes against humanities trials; corrections to transitional contexts of several Iraq & BiH trials; updated Guatemala trials data based on in-country case files; updated and revised trials data for the Balkans and added over 300 new trials | tjet_cy.csv; tjet_trials.csv; tjet_accused.csv |
| 2024-09-13 | added reparations and vetting variables; some trialType corrections for Indonesia; added missing translations of some trial case descriptions for the website; changed “low-level conflict” to “opposition” trials | tjet_cy.csv; tjet_trials.csv; tjet_reparations.csv; tjet_vettings.csv |
Data Downloads
On this page you can find all TJET data and supporting documentation. See below for citation information. If you have questions or concerns, please email us at tjetdata@gmail.com. If you use TJET data in your research, please share resulting working papers and publications with us, and we will add your citations to this website.
TJET dataset
This is the complete country-year dataset (whereas the export on the map page is filtered to the user’s selection).
Country-year dataset [tjet_cy.csv]
Codebook [tjet_codebook.csv]
Raw data
These data were collected and entered by trained coders, and serve as the basis for the country pages and the TJET dataset.
| Mechanism | Data | Codebook | Coding manual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amnesties | tjet_amnesties.csv | tjet_amnesties_codebook.csv | TJET_AmnestyCoding_2024.pdf |
| Reparations policies | tjet_reparations.csv | tjet_reparations_codebook.csv | TJET_ReparationsCoding_2024.pdf |
| Criminal prosecutions Accused individuals Court levels for accused |
tjet_trials.csv tjet_accused.csv tjet_courtlevels.csv |
tjet_trials_codebook.csv tjet_accused_codebook.csv tjet_courtlevels_codebook.csv |
TJET_ProsAccCoding_2024.pdf |
| Truth commissions | tjet_tcs.csv | tjet_tcs_codebook.csv | TJET_TCsCoding_2024.pdf |
| Vetting policies | tjet_vettings.csv | tjet_vettings_codebook.csv | TJET_VettingCoding_2024.pdf |
| ICC interventions ICC accused individuals |
tjet_icc_interventions.csv tjet_icc_accused.csv |
tjet_icc_interventions_codebook.csv tjet_icc_accused_codebook.csv |
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| UN investigations | tjet_un_investigations.csv | tjet_un_investigations_codebook.csv |
Database Versions
All data files above provide the version date in the column labeled “tjet_version”. Changes to the TJET database are listed below.
Replication and citation
The code creating these files, including our new transitional justice measures, is available from our GitHub Organization.
For attribution, please cite the TJET database as:
- Geoff Dancy, Phuong Pham, Kathryn Sikkink, Oskar Timo Thoms, and Patrick Vinck, “TJET Database of Transitional Justice Mechanisms, 1970-2020” (Toronto: Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools, April 30, 2024), https://transitionaljusticedata.org.
Citations for other data
In addition to sources for specific TJ mechanisms listed in our Reference Library, TJET has drawn on the following data collections:
United States Department of State, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” research report (Washington, DC: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights,; Labor, United States Department of State, 2023), https://www.state.gov/reports-bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/.
Polity Project, “Polity 5: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2018,” technical report (Vienna, VA: Center for Systemic Peace, 2020), www.systemicpeace.org.
Nils Petter Gleditsch, Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollonberg, and Håvard Strand, “Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset,” Journal of Peace Research 39, no. 5 (2002): 615–37, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343302039005007.
Kristine Eck and Lisa Hultman, “One-Sided Violence Against Civilians in War: Insights from New Fatality Data,” Journal of Peace Research 44, no. 2 (2007): 233–46, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343307075124.
Lotta Harbom, Erik Melander, and Peter Wallensteen, “Dyadic Dimensions of Armed Conflict, 1946—2007,” Journal of Peace Research 45, no. 5 (September 2008): 697–710, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343308094331.
Ralph Sundberg and Erik Melander, “Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset,” Journal of Peace Research 50, no. 4 (2013): 523–32, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343313484347.
Carles Boix, Michael Miller, and Sebastian Rosato, “A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800–2007,” Comparative Political Studies 46, no. 12 (December 2013): 1523–54, https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414012463905.
Keith E. Schnakenberg and Christopher J. Fariss, “Dynamic Patterns of Human Rights Practices,” Political Science Research and Methods 2, no. 1 (2014): 1–31.
Christopher J Fariss, Michael R Kenwick, and Kevin Reuning, “Estimating One-Sided-Killings from a Robust Measurement Model of Human Rights,” Journal of Peace Research 57, no. 6 (2020): 801–14, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343320965670.
Louise Mallinder, “Amnesties, Conflict and Peace Agreement Dataset” (The University of Edinburgh, 2020), https://peaceagreements.org/amnesties/.
Amanda B. Edgell et al., “Episodes of Regime Transformation Dataset (V2.0) Codebook” (Varieties of Democracy Institute, University of Gothenburg; Varieties of Democracy Project, 2020), http://www.v-dem.net/.
Seraphine F. Maerz, Amanda B. Edgell, Matthew C. Wilson, Sebastian Hellmeier, and Staffan I. Lindberg, “A Framework for Understanding Regime Transformation: Introducing the ERT Dataset” (Varieties of Democracy Institute, University of Gothenburg; V-Dem working paper no. 113, 8th edition, February 2021), http://www.v-dem.net/.
Michael Coppedge et al., “V-Dem [Country-Year/Country-Date] Dataset” (Varieties of Democracy Institute, University of Gothenburg; Varieties of Democracy Project, 2023), https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemds23.
Shawn Davies, Therése Pettersson, and Magnus Öberg, “Organized Violence 1989–2022, and the Return of Conflict Between States,” Journal of Peace Research 60, no. 4 (2023): 691–708, https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231185169.
Luke Moffett, “Reparations Database” (Belfast: Queen’s University Belfast; Reparations, Responsibility, & Victimhood in Transitional Societies, n.d.), https://reparations.qub.ac.uk/reparations-database/.